Nassau Guardian areporter Sloan Smith (left) interviews Fox Hill Nursery owner Amanda Myers yesterday. (Photo: Torrell Glinton)

Outside Fox Hill Nursery on Bernard Road a sign sits: "BPL 12 days of no power. We are trying to run a business. Please help."

Amanda Meyers, the nursery's owner, said they are losing business and merchandise each day the power stays off.

"I've just become fed up," said Meyers, one of many business owners critically impacted in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, which pummelled New Providence on October 6.

"Hence the sign this morning pleading. Can somebody please stop and talk to us and tell us what is going on?

"There is power all around us and we feel like it's just the house next door and here that have no power.

"Nobody has communicated and I just think that it is poor, it's bad; 12 days without power is unacceptable."

Meyers said she understands that there are other people who may be in a worse condition than them, but she only wants someone to stop, see what the problem is and let them know.

"We were patient in the beginning," she said.

"I went through all the routes. I called the command center over and over again.

"We sent messages via their Facebook page as we were all told to do, but nothing, nothing came of it, not even answers on any of that.

"Then I actually went and started stalking the trucks in the neighborhood and tracking the guys down and telling them our issue and they would politely say, you [have to] find the guys in the little white trucks."

Lynn Grattan, the nursery's shopkeeper, said their plants are starting to suffer greatly.

"Unfortunately, we run on well water so we need the pumps and without power we can't water the plants," Grattan said.

"We do a lot of business with the Family Islands and we can't take credit cards because we have no power for that purpose and all we want is for someone to come and look.

"We are losing plants in the back.

"We luckily have some rainwater tanks and we've been hand watering everything.

"But a lot of our bigger plants to the back, they are starting to suffer greatly.

"The rain that we had the other day was a blessing for us.

"Unfortunately, not for a lot of people with roof damage but it was for us because it allowed us to see the plants singing.

"It's just becoming very frustrating."

Grattan claimed when the sign was placed out yesterday morning several BPL trucks passed, drivers read it and drove off.

"They stopped, looked at our sign and continued on," she said.

"I know it's not their fault. They have an agenda for the day, but if they could have just said something, it would have been better."

Theresa Brown, the owner of Zukie's Place, on Pinedale Street, also indicated her business is suffering as a result of the lack of electricity supply. Zukie's Place is the name of Brown's breakfast food truck.

The business has been opened for about 12 years.

Due to the lack of electricity and water supply at her home, Brown has been unable to operate her business.

"It makes me feel horrible that I can't serve my customers," Brown said.

"They usually come here every morning for breakfast, but since I'm closed they come to my home door now, and I have to tell them there's no light, so I can't open.

"Thirteen days, no light, no water; that's a lot of days to not to be opened.

"I've lost a lot. It's hard and it doesn't make any sense.

"I am deeply frustrated. I need light."

Sloan Smith, Guardian Staff Reporter

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